An upcoming Outlook update will allow you to add Focus Time to your calendar, pausing notifications from both Outlook and Teams. Are these your biggest distractions?
Outlook is introducing “Focus Time,” allowing users to silence all notifications for a set period. Users can block out time in their Outlook calendar to get a little peace. Doing so will mute notifications not just from Outlook but also from Microsoft Teams.
Focus time in Outlook
The post also added that users could block out “focus events” directly from their Outlook calendar, which should be visible to anyone with access to a specific calendar, meaning colleagues, co-workers, or clients should leave you in peace.
The update is still listed as “in development” but has a mooted general availability date of January 2023. When released, Microsoft is looking to make the feature available to Outlook users across Web, desktop, iOS, and Android.
The news is similar to a feature previously introduced by Google Workspace to its calendar app. Its “focus time” tool allows users to block periods where they can avoid meetings and get their heads down for actual work.
Setting such a marker in a Google Calendar will allow users to automatically decline meetings, meaning no last-minute rush to finish work.
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